Source:Ordinance-1911-june-dec-285
"An ordinance extending and opening Grant boulevard, from Seventh avenue to Webster avenue, Tunnel street and Pentland street, in the Second ward of the City of Pittsburgh, and providing that the cost, damages and expenses occasioned thereby be assessed against and collected from properties benefited thereby." Pittsburgh city ordinance, June–Dec. 1911, no. 285. Passed Nov. 14, 1911; approved Nov. 16, 1911. Ordinance Book 23, p. 404. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh from Beginning of Appointed Term June 10, 1911 to End of Appointed Term December 31, 1911, appendix, pp. 112–113, Devine & Co., Pittsburgh, 1911 (Google Books ClQxAQAAMAAJ, D7pEAQAAMAAJ; HathiTrust chi.096598740, uiug.30112108223865; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1911part2; https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_ff5444dc-4556-44c9-9e62-869d7fae5da8/; https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_f855d6e5-0a88-4b5a-802c-1dbf6d859a3c/).
No. 285
AN ORDINANCE—Extending and opening Grant boulevard, from Seventh avenue to Webster avenue, Tunnel street and Pentland street, in the Second ward of the City of Pittsburgh, and providing that the cost, damages and expenses occasioned thereby be assessed against and collected from properties benefited thereby.
Section 1. Be it ordained and enacted by the City of Pittsburgh, in Council assembled, and it is hereby ordained and enacted by the authority of the same, That Grant boulevard, from Seventh avenue to Webster avenue, Tunnel street and Pentland street, in the Second ward of the City of Pittsburgh, be extended and opened to a variable width by taking for public use all the following described property, to-wit:
Beginning at a point on the southerly building line of Seventh avenue at a distance of 99.96 feet eastwardly from the easterly building line of Pentland street; thence deflecting to the right 90° 56′ 00″, and in a southwesterly direction parallel to and at a perpendicular distance of 99.96 feet eastwardly from the easterly building line of Pentland street, for a distance of 282.19 feet to a point on the westerly building line of Webster avenue; thence deflecting to the right 38° 26′ 50″, and in a southwesterly direction along the westerly building line of Webster avenue, for a distance of 72.64 feet to the intersection of the westerly building line of Webster avenue and the northerly building line of Tunnel street; thence deflecting to the right 89° 52′ 50″, and in a northwesterly direction along the northerly building line of Tunnel street and the said northerly building line of Tunnel street produced, for a distance of 69.85 feet to a point on the easterly building line of Pentland street produced; thence deflecting to the right 51° 40′ 30″, and in a northeasterly direction along the easterly building line of Pentland street produced, and the said easterly building line of Pentland street, for a distance of 71.12 feet to a point; thence deflecting to the right 90° 01′ 30″, and in a southeasterly direction for a distance of 39.96 feet to a point; thence deflecting to the left 90° 01′ 30″, and in a northeasterly direction parallel to and at a perpendicular distance of 39.96 feet eastwardly from the easterly building line of Pentland street, for a distance of 223.78 feet to a point on the southerly building line of Seventh avenue; thence deflecting to the right 89° 04′, and in a southeasterly direction along the southerly building line of Seventh avenue, for a distance of 60.00 feet to the place of beginning.
Section 2. The Department of Public Works is hereby authorized and directed to cause said Grant boulevard, from Seventh avenue to Webster avenue, Tunnel street and Pentland street to be extended and opened, in conformity with the provisions of Section 1 of this ordinance.
Section 3. The cost, damages and expense caused thereby, and the benefits to pay the same, shall be assessed against and collected from properties benefited thereby, in accordance with the provisions of the Acts of Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania relating thereto and regulating the same.
Section 4. That any Ordinance or part of Ordinance, conflicting with the provisions of this Ordinance, be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as the same affects this Ordinance.
Passed November 14, 1911.
Approved November 16, 1911.
Ordinance Book 23, page 404.
